A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (The Marianne Williamson Series)

We forgive, then, out of self-interest. I forgive you because I want out of my pain. I forgive you so that I can be free of what you did. I see beyond your mistake to the love in you so that I can see beyond the mistake to the love in me—because only then can I have a miracle. The universe will immediately reprogram itself to send us miracles, when

“No matter what we do, we can make it our ministry,”

Deeply understanding and applying the power of love, combined with the spiritual protection of good cheer, is just about the wisest thing we can do for ourselves. When we commit to cheerfulness and to life lived in the loving expectation of goodness, the world becomes a beautiful reflection of these qualities.

In true power, you love freely because you do not fear rejection or pain. You give of yourself because you know that rejection is a sign of the other's inability to receive what you are. You do not compete with another because competition implies shame and denies the mastery of both of you. And you know that ultimately you're competing with yoursel